Class size in K ?

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Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Your dcps class doesn't have two teachers. It has one teacher and an aide. At least at my dcps, aides are poorly educated and poorly paid and very uneven quality. And no aide after K, unless you're at one of the handful of schools where the pta pays for extra staff.

We went from 26 kids in a wotp dcps with one teacher to 18 kids in private, plus an additional math specialist during math class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Not anymore. Not Big 5. They’ll either do 22-24 kids with two teachers or 16 kids with one teacher. That one teacher better bring their A Game.

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WIS is 16-18 with teacher and aide.

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Nova parochial. 22-23 students in K. Teacher plus an aide.

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Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Our DCPS K class had a teacher and an aide, and 16 kids (Deal feeder). We found the aides to be wonderful PK3-K--in some cases, they even had kids attending the same school, and were really invested. We switched to private in 1st, and elementary classes have been a little large (18-20 kids) and no aide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Primary Day
16-17 students each in 2 K classes
2 lead teachers
Separate math and reading specialist to help lead teachers

This is thread is very helpful. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Our DCPS K class had a teacher and an aide, and 16 kids (Deal feeder). We found the aides to be wonderful PK3-K--in some cases, they even had kids attending the same school, and were really invested. We switched to private in 1st, and elementary classes have been a little large (18-20 kids) and no aide.

We are in Prek 3 at DCPS and love our aide. She's less experienced than our lead teacher but she is really great and my daughter has really connected with her.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gds will be different with new campus. Check with admissions

Above is accurate. 22 in pK, 2 teachers. Two classes of 22 in play-based K (ie no reading groups). Three classes of 15-16 with one homeroom teacher, floating Aide and specialists thereafter.

GDS also has an aide for preK

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Your dcps class doesn't have two teachers. It has one teacher and an aide. At least at my dcps, aides are poorly educated and poorly paid and very uneven quality. And no aide after K, unless you're at one of the handful of schools where the pta pays for extra staff.

We went from 26 kids in a wotp dcps with one teacher to 18 kids in private, plus an additional math specialist during math class.

+1 an aide barely has a high school diploma and is only tasked with herding the crowd.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who is a teacher. She said in MCMD it counts that she has an aide if the aide is there for 20 min. a day. She said it's not much help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Your dcps class doesn't have two teachers. It has one teacher and an aide. At least at my dcps, aides are poorly educated and poorly paid and very uneven quality. And no aide after K, unless you're at one of the handful of schools where the pta pays for extra staff.

We went from 26 kids in a wotp dcps with one teacher to 18 kids in private, plus an additional math specialist during math class.

It really depends. I volunteered pre-covid in K and our aide was in college close to getting her teaching degree. She worked in small groups (as did the teacher). No, she wasn’t a credentialed, but yes two teachers were on the classroom. The other two aides at the school were similar.

Also, your post wreaks of privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's interesting. My daughter is in K in DCPS and there are 22 kids in the class and two teachers. I thought most private schools had significantly smaller class sizes?

Your dcps class doesn't have two teachers. It has one teacher and an aide. At least at my dcps, aides are poorly educated and poorly paid and very uneven quality. And no aide after K, unless you're at one of the handful of schools where the pta pays for extra staff.

We went from 26 kids in a wotp dcps with one teacher to 18 kids in private, plus an additional math specialist during math class.

It really depends. I volunteered pre-covid in K and our aide was in college close to getting her teaching degree. She worked in small groups (as did the teacher). No, she wasn’t a credentialed, but yes two teachers were on the classroom. The other two aides at the school were similar.

Also, your post wreaks of privilege.

Those two are contrary points.

Also, it's reeks.

[Anonymous]

i know of a few MCPS school Ks that have 12-13 in each class

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Our private has 13-14 in K

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7 at Christ Episcopal School right now